I thought of two pieces of advice that have been useful to me, both of which come from other people who are older and wiser than I am!
My high school flute teacher told me to do one lovely thing for myself every day, however small.
And then, when I was twenty, I met a woman who had just turned fifty who, for reasons still unbeknownst to me, decided to tell me the two things she wished she had known when she was my age. Of the two, the one that has been most important to me has been "Don't spend your core energy nurturing other people." I imagine this isn't a problem for everyone, but if it applies to you, it's a really good thing to remember. (The other, for the curious, was that when you hurt yourself or get sick when you're young and the doctor says to rest for two weeks, you should rest for two weeks, even if you feel fine after one, because otherwise your body saves it all up for when you're fifty :->)
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Date: 2006-07-18 02:16 am (UTC)My high school flute teacher told me to do one lovely thing for myself every day, however small.
And then, when I was twenty, I met a woman who had just turned fifty who, for reasons still unbeknownst to me, decided to tell me the two things she wished she had known when she was my age. Of the two, the one that has been most important to me has been "Don't spend your core energy nurturing other people." I imagine this isn't a problem for everyone, but if it applies to you, it's a really good thing to remember. (The other, for the curious, was that when you hurt yourself or get sick when you're young and the doctor says to rest for two weeks, you should rest for two weeks, even if you feel fine after one, because otherwise your body saves it all up for when you're fifty :->)